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Tuning: E A D G B E
Many more reggae artists are participating here - I could find out and/or here Morgan Heritage, Buju Banton, Yami Bolo, Bunny Wailer, Damian Marley and Stephen Marley. Use a capo in fret 2 to play easier chords: Em Am / Em Am / Em D Em (For that select "-4" in the transposing tool below.) [Intro]
F#m From the slaveship to the chain From the task master's whip to myBm brain Kidnapped, enslaved, raped, and killed by the lynch clan agF#main and again Is it the origin of the skBmin or the face of a race Why yF#mou don't cEare about mF#me?
[Chorus]
Now, I knF#mow you don't care about me I'm just a nBmigga walking down the street The brother dF#mid nothing wrong But nBmow his life is gone So, I knF#mow you don't cEare about mF#me
[Verse 1]
F#m Code of silence you say Yet your Bmactions speak so loud and clear Diallo's kF#millers going free paid by sociBmety Now I knF#mow you don't cEare about mF#me
[Verse 2]
Ey, we should be bF#murning and looting believe me, start exchanging 41 for 90 BmOur ancestors've built this country and all sticks and whips and kicks and punches MF#meanwhile you're living like some bird in bunches Tell me whBmere is the justice, much less the dances? My wF#morld must know that man is stEill in darkness [F#m?]
[Verse 3]
F#m Rapings, torture, kill and maim Their injBmustice remains the same Killing the pF#meople in the Queen's name No Bmone will get the blame And my pF#meople keep goingE down the drF#main
[Verse 4]
F#m And all these crimes we've come to read They'll be wrBmitten in black history Crimes of injF#mustice and inhumanity PerpetrBmated by society And my pF#meople are living Ein poverF#mty
[Verse 5]
F#m My struggle for survival is to be accepted And treated as a member of the humanBm family Whose practices should reveal the fundamental right and dF#muty to be humane In all judgement and Bmaction to all humanity So, whyF#m don't you careE about meF#m?
[Chorus]
Say I knF#mow you don't care about me I'm just a nBmigga walking down the street The brother dF#mid nothing wrong But nBmow his life is gone And I kF#mnow you don't cEare about mF#me
[Verse 6]
F#m Code of silence you say But your Bmactions is so loud and clear Are DF#miallo's killers going free? PBmaid by society And I knF#mow you don't cEare about mF#me
[Verse 7]
Well, AmF#madou Diallo, they killed him for nuttin', no crime he did not do! And jBmust like him there were others who suffered for what they didn't do We're lF#miving in a system We are the victimsBm and that is so true AmadF#mou Diallo,E reggae mF#music knows your name!
[Verse 8]
Amadou DF#miallo, ey! Amadou DiBmallo, ey! Amadou DiF#mallo, wBmoy! F#m Reggae music knEows your nF#mame
[Verse 9]
F#m Code of silence you say Yes your Bmactions speak so loud and clear Diallo's kF#millers going free? Paid by socBmiety And I knF#mow you don't cEare about mF#me
[Verse 10]
Yo, Ziggy, check this out! It's kinda strF#mange how the same things're happening Over and Bmover again, over and over again And they sF#may their constitution's For the bBmenefit of all It's all a lF#mie again,E it's all a lF#mie again
[Verse 11]
Tell me whF#men will this injustice change (tell me when!) Tell me whBmen will we stop feeling pain (feeling pain) Just the wF#may we survive In their Bmeyes it's a crime YF#mou're to blameE for all that's blF#meeding this way
[Verse 12]
Yes, we knF#mow you don't care about we (yes we know!) Yes, we knBmow you don't care about we (yes we know) Yes, we knF#mow you don't care about wBme Yes, we knowF#m (yes we knEow), yes we knF#mow (yes we know)
[Chorus]
Now, I knF#mow you don't care about me I'm just a nBmigga walking down your street The brother dF#mid nothing wrong But nBmow his life is gone So, I knF#mow you don't cEare about mF#me
[Outro]
F#m We want to talk right down the earth In a language that everybody hBmere can easily understand We all agree tonight, all of the spF#meakers have agreed That America has a very serious prBmoblem Not only does AmericaF#m have a very serious problEem, but our people hF#mave a very serious problem